395. Section 469 of the Act is renumbered as subsection 469(1) and is amended by adding the following:
Approved holding of investment	(2) The company may continue to hold the substantial investment after the end of the period referred to in subsection 456(1) or (2) that applies in respect of the investment, including any extension of the period granted under subsection 456(4), with the approval in writing of the Minister obtained before the end of that period or extended period.
	396. Section 470 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Assets transactions	470. (1) A company shall not at any time, without the prior written approval of the Superintendent, directly or indirectly acquire assets from a person, or directly or indirectly transfer assets to a person, if
	A + B > C
	where
	A is the value of the assets;
	B is the total value of all assets that the company directly or indirectly acquired from, or directly or indirectly transferred to, that person in the twelve months ending immediately before that time; and
	C is ten per cent of the total value of the assets of the company, as shown in the last annual financial statement of the company prepared before that time.
Exception	(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to
	(a) an asset that is a debt obligation referred to in subparagraphs (b)(i) to (v) of the definition ``commercial loan'' in subsection 449(1); or
	(b) a transaction or series of transactions by a company with another financial institution as a result of the company's participation in one or more syndicated loans with that financial institution.
	397. The Act is amended by adding the following before section 474:
Definition of ``senior officer''	473.1 For the purposes of this Part, a ``senior officer'' of a body corporate is a person who is
	(a) a director of the body corporate who is a full-time employee of the body corporate;
	(b) the chief executive officer, chief operating officer, president, secretary, treasurer, controller, chief financial officer, chief accountant, chief auditor or chief actuary of the body corporate;
	(c) a natural person who performs functions for the body corporate similar to those performed by a person referred to in paragraph (b);
	(d) the head of the strategic planning unit of the body corporate;
	(e) the head of the unit of the body corporate that provides legal services or human resources services to the body corporate; or
	(f) any other officer reporting directly to the body corporate's board of directors, chief executive officer or chief operating officer.
	398. (1) Paragraph 474(1)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:
	(b) is a director or senior officer of the company or of a body corporate that controls the company or is acting in a similar capacity in respect of an unincorporated entity that controls the company;
	(2) Paragraph 474(1)(d) of the Act is replaced by the following:
	(d) is an entity that is controlled by a person referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c) ;
	(3) Paragraphs 474(1)(f) to (h) of the Act are replaced by the following:
	(f) is an entity in which the spouse, or a child who is less than eighteen years of age, of a person who controls the company has a substantial investment; or
	(g) is a person, or a member of a class of persons, designated under subsection (3) or (4) as, or deemed under subsection (5) to be, a related party of the company.
	(4) Subsection 474(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Exception - subsidiaries and substantial investments of companies	(2) If an entity in which a company has a substantial investment would, but for this subsection, be a related party of the company only because a person who controls the company controls the entity or has a substantial investment in the entity, and the person does not control the entity or have a substantial investment in the entity otherwise than through the person's controlling interest in the company, the entity is not a related party of the company.
	(5) Subsections 474(6) to (8) of the Act are replaced by the following:
Holders of exempted shares	(6) The Superintendent may, by order, designate a class of non-voting shares of a company for the purpose of this subsection. If a class of non-voting shares of a company is so designated , a person is deemed, notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a), not to be a related party of the company if the person would otherwise be a related party of the company only because the person has a significant interest in that class.
Determi- nation of substantial investment	(7) For the purpose of determining whether an entity or a person has a substantial investment for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e) or (f), the references to ``control'' and ``controlled'' in section 10 shall be construed as references to ``control, within the meaning of section 3, determined without regard to paragraph 3(1)(d)'' and ``controlled, within the meaning of section 3, determined without regard to paragraph 3(1)(d)'', respectively.
Determi- nation of control	(8) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) , ``controlled'' means ``controlled, within the meaning of section 3, determined without regard to paragraph 3(1)(d)''.
1991, c. 48, par. 493(b)	399. Subsections 475(4) and (5) of the Act are replaced by the following:
Exception for holding body corporate	(4) A holding body corporate of a company is not a related party of a company where the holding body corporate is
	(a) a Canadian financial institution that is referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition ``financial institution'' in section 2; or
	(b) a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under subsection 473(1) of the Cooperative Credit Associations Act.
Substantial investment - related party exception	(5) Where a holding body corporate of a company is, because of subsection (4), not a related party of the company, any entity in which the holding body corporate has a substantial investment is not a related party of the company if no related party of the company has a substantial investment in the entity otherwise than through the control of the holding body corporate.
	400. Subsection 483(3) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Service corporations	(3) Notwithstanding subsection 477(2), a company is deemed not to have indirectly entered into a transaction in respect of which this Part applies if the transaction is entered into by a service corporation, as defined in subsection 449(1) , that is controlled by the company and the transaction is on terms and conditions at least as favourable to the company as market terms and conditions, as defined in subsection 489(2).
	401. (1) Paragraphs 484(1)(a) and (b) of the Act are replaced by the following:
	(a) a natural person who is a related party of the company only because the person is
	(i) a director or senior officer of the company or of an entity that controls the company, or
	(ii) the spouse, or a child who is less than eighteen years of age, of a director or senior officer of the company or of an entity that controls the company; or
	(b) an entity that is a related party of the company only because the entity is controlled by
	(i) a director or senior officer of the company or of an entity that controls the company, or
	(ii) the spouse, or a child who is less than eighteen years of age, of a director or senior officer referred to in subparagraph (i) .
	(2) Subsection 484(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Loans to full-time senior officers	(2) A company may, with respect to a related party of the company referred to in subsection (1) who is a full-time senior officer of the company, make, take an assignment of or otherwise acquire a loan to the related party only if the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding loans to the related party that are held by the company and its subsidiaries, together with the principal amount of the proposed loan, does not exceed the greater of twice the annual salary of the related party and $100,000.
	(3) Subsections 484(4) to (6) of the Act are replaced by the following:
Preferred terms - loan to senior officer	(4) Notwithstanding section 489, a company may make a loan, other than a margin loan, to a senior officer of the company on terms and conditions more favourable to the officer than those offered to the public by the company if those terms and conditions have been approved by the conduct review committee of the company.
Preferred terms - loan to spouse of senior officer	(5) Notwithstanding section 489, a company may make a loan referred to in paragraph 479(b) to the spouse of a senior officer of the company on terms and conditions more favourable to the spouse of that officer than those offered to the public by the company if those terms and conditions have been approved by the conduct review committee of the company.
Preferred terms - other financial services	(6) Notwithstanding section 489, a company may offer financial services, other than loans or guarantees, to a senior officer of the company, or to the spouse, or a child who is less than eighteen years of age, of a senior officer of the company, on terms and conditions more favourable than those offered to the public by the company if
	(a) the financial services are offered by the company to employees of the company on those favourable terms and conditions; and
	(b) the conduct review committee of the company has approved the practice of making those financial services available on those favourable terms and conditions to senior officers of the company or to the spouses, or the children under eighteen years of age, of senior officers of the company.
	402. Subparagraph 485(1)(d)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:
	(ii) if the related party is a full-time senior officer of the company, loans to the related party that are permitted by subsection 484(2),
	403. Section 486 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Margin loans	486. The Superintendent may establish terms and conditions with respect to the making by a company of margin loans to a director or senior officer of the company.
	404. Sections 490 and 491 of the Act are repealed.
	405. Section 493 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Notice to Superinten- dent	493. Where a company has entered into a transaction that the company is prohibited by this Part from entering into, or where a company has entered into a transaction for which approval is required under subsection 485(1) without having obtained the approval, the company shall, on becoming aware of that fact, notify the Superintendent without delay .
	406. Paragraph 503(2)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
	(a) to any government agency or body that regulates or supervises financial institutions, for purposes related to that regulation or supervision ,
	(a.01) to any other agency or body that regulates or supervises financial institutions, for purposes related to that regulation or supervision,
	407. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 527:
Alternative means of publication	527.1 (1) Anything that is required by a provision of this Act to be published in the Canada Gazette or to be published in any other way may, instead of being published in that way, be published in any manner that may be prescribed for the purpose of that provision.
Alternative means of publishing summaries	(2) Anything that is required by a provision of this Act to be summarized in a publication may instead be summarized and published in any manner that may be prescribed for the purpose of that provision.
Publication conditions	(3) Any condition under a provision of this Act that something be published in the Canada Gazette or in any other way is satisfied if that thing is published instead in any manner that may be prescribed for the purpose of that provision.
Other consequences	(4) Where a provision of this Act provides for consequences to follow the publication of something in the Canada Gazette or in any other manner, the same consequences follow the publication of that thing in any other manner that may be prescribed for the purpose of that provision.
	408. Section 531 of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (a):
	(a.1) prescribing the way in which anything that is required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed shall be determined;
	409. Paragraphs 534(1)(a) and (b) of the Act are replaced by the following:
	(a) in the case of a natural person, liable
	(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both, or
	(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding $500,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to both ; and
	(b) in the case of an entity, liable
	(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding $500,000, or
	(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding $5,000,000.
	410. Section 535 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Liability of officers, directors, etc.	535. Where an entity commits an offence under this Act, any officer, director or agent of the entity who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the offence is a party to and guilty of the offence and liable on summary conviction or on conviction on indictment to the punishment provided under paragraph 534(1)(a) for the offence whether or not the entity has been prosecuted or convicted.
R.S., c. W-11; 1996, c. 6, s. 134	winding-up and restructuring act
1996, c. 6, s. 161	411. Paragraph 161(2)(b) of the Winding-up and Restructuring Act is replaced by the following:
	(b) a policyholder of the company claiming a minimum amount that the company has agreed to pay under a policy or in respect of an amount for which a segregated fund is maintained under section 451, subsection 542.03(2) or section 593 of the Insurance Companies Act for a deficiency if the assets of the fund are insufficient to satisfy such a claim